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Who are you, Nature? I live in you; for fifty years I have been seeking you, and I have not found you yet.

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Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.

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I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

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There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

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Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?

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All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.

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Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.

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History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

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The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

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I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

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I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

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Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.

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A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.

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Our priests are not what a silly populace supposes; all their learning consists in our credulity.

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Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

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The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing.

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No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for.

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The Pride of every Jew finds cause to believe that the cause of their down fall is not their detestable politics, or ignorance of social graces, but the raft of God. They believe it took a miracle to undo them.

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God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

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